Digital work platforms at the interface of labour law : : regulating market organisers / / Eva Kocher.

• VerfasserIn: Kocher, Eva,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, UK : : Hart Publishing,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 pages).

"This book shows how to design labour rights to effectively protect digital platform workers, organise accountability on digital work platforms, and guarantee workers' collective representation and action. It acknowledges that digital work platforms entail enormous risks for workers, and at the same time it reveals the extent to which labour law is in need of reconstruction. The book focusses on the conceptual links - often overlooked in the past - between labour law's categories and its regulatory approaches. By explaining and analysing the wealth of approaches that deconstruct and reconceptualise labour law, the book uncovers the organisational ideas that permeate labour law's categories as well as its policy approaches in a variety of jurisdictions. These ideas reveal a lack of fit between labour law's traditional concepts and digital platform work: digital work platforms rarely behave like hierarchical organisations; instead, they more often function as market organisers. The book provides a fresh perspective for international academic and policy debates on the regulation of digital work platforms, as well as on the purposes and foundations of labour law. It offers a way out of the impasse the debate around labour law classification has reached, by showing what labour law could learn from digital law approaches to platforms - and vice versa."-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes -- 1. Introduction: Just Another Technical Revolution? -- 2. Digital Work Platforms as Objects of Regulation -- 3. Fitting Pegs into Holes: Classification in Labour Law -- 4. Theoretical Foundations of Employment Classification -- 5. Digital Work Platforms as Organisations -- 6. Labour Law Categories for Workers on Market Organising Platforms -- 7. Enabling Workers and Holding Platforms Accountable -- 8. Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index